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Building emacs from source

• Remove all other emacs versions from the system.
  Otherwise, you may get confused later on, when the wrong emacs version accidentally starts when double-clicking on some file.

• Download:

 wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.4.tar.gz
 tar -xzf emacs-24.4.tar.gz
 cd emacs-24.4

• Install dependencies:

# Satisfy most dependencies automatically.
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get build-dep emacs24

Apparently that does not satisfy the Xaw3d dependency:

 Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?  no

But I do not actually know what type of scroll bar or whatever that Xaw3d package is. If you know more, please drop me a line.

• Build:

 ./configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --prefix="$HOME/emacs-24.4-bin"
 make -j "$(( $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) + 1 ))"
 make install

• Adjust your system:
  • Change your $EDITOR shell variable.
  • Create a KDE shortcut like this:
    "$HOME/emacs-24.4-bin/bin/emacs" %F
  • The icon is here:
    $HOME/emacs-24.4-bin/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
  • Configure double-click file opening like this:
    /home/<user>/emacs-24.4-bin/bin/emacsclient --no-wait
  • If you autostart emacs, adjust that too.
  • If you have any scripts that use emacs or emacsclient, adjust them too.

Unresolved issues

• See unsatisfied dependency "Xaw3d" above.
• With Ubuntu 14.04's emacs 24.3, you can drag-and-drop multiple files at once from a KDE Dolphin window. That does not work anymore. It could be a configuration issue.